The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-01-13
ARE THEY THE MEN
TWO ALLEGED couNTERFElrEns
I.a,iged In the Lookup Last Sight-A Neat
and Important Capture or n Serious
lIi.tnko-Ths Men Tell n Straight ~ Z
Story-what They Have to Say. y Il

LaBt evening TWO Btrangere, prlRnt look
log and we'll dressed, went along Main
street from Eighth up, and possibly also
other streets, industrlously passing coun.
t.rieit money They were evidently very
old hands at the business, and worked 1t
very neatly. One Of them would 10 into
saloon, call for glaes OF beer or cigar,
get his change and pass on to a grocery or
any other sort OF shop where the scheme
seemed workable. The other one worked
the other side OF the street In tho came
way. 1t Is also known that they have
operated in East Wheeling to some OK.
tent. @ ~
The coins they passed arc all dollars,
made OF lecd or pewter, cast rather skill.
fully, but not cloee enough imitation OF
genuine coin to deceive any even mod.
ers.ely close observer. The coin feels bad /,
rings bad, Ia light In weight and grained
on the face, or some Of 1t Is, az II the
mould were cold when the metal was
poured In. The place where the opening
In the mold was can easily be detected
on most Of them. Si
The spurious character OF the money
was found out soon after the men went
along, and description Of the parties was
given 10 the police. who at once began to
trace them up. Traces Of their work we're
found all along the street. Among those
yictimized we're J. G. Kline, the-North
Wheeling saloonist, Martin Carroll, Fred.
huffman, Peter Miller, the grocer, Louis
Oohrn, all Of North Main street, and An.
drew Bishop, Of East Wheeling.
About one o'clock this morning Officers
Dunlap and Duffy called at the St.. James
hotel and described the two men to the
night clerk. He said there were two men
lin foom "a OF whom he was suspicious
when they came in, from their appearance
and action, and the fact that though they
had no baggageth they had left S2i3in thesafe
to be kept over night. The officers at once
talepboned TO officer Reslop. OF the First
ward, TO bring Mr.. J. G. Kline to the
hotel to see II he could identify the men.
1 Ia said that one OF them no thought was
tho Quo who was in his place. Thoy
we're therefore lodged in the lcckup for
Baie-keeping until the matter could bs in.
vestigated.
Tho mon are business like in appearance
and dress. One. OF them is short and
stout, with short gray hair, and gives hiz
name as James McCarty. The other ia
slim, about 5 feet inches high, with dGrk
eyes and hair and black mustache. He
calls himself Trunk Mccain.
An INTgLLIFEECER man interviewed
them after they were locked up. Mr.. Nc
Cam says he has sold butterine in the
Diamond market at Pittsburgh for years,
but as the business has now been declared
illegal he came down here to look for a
locality for factory. o McCarty aud
he reached the city on the 1880 Balti.
more 4 Ohio train last night,
went to the st. James Hotel, then had o
drink in Mclaughlin & McGinley's, took
. walk up Main street and back to the
hotel. Both snemed terribly mortified by
the arrest, and told straight and CON
sistent story, which, If true, entirely pre-
cludes the possibility Of their being the
guilty parties. :,
The clerk at the St. James says the older
man, McCarty, has been here bsfore, and
waa then representing Wholesale pro.
duce house in Pittsburgh. This seems to
substantiate their claims. Both gave M.
merous good references in Pittsburgh, but
at the hour no Inquiry could be made
there.
A Geographic inquiry was sent to Pitts.
burgh by the IErELLIGEScEn after the ar.
rest, and the following answer received at
half past two this morning: e.
Frank McCsnn keeps stalls q and 80
in the Pittsburgh market" There is 4
James McCarty, a fireman, and another y
coniectioner, in the city directory"